Name _____________________
Class ______________________
Date ______________________
Current Events
1. Choose ONE of the following sources:
o Newspaper (e.g. Ventura County Star, USA Today, etc.)_____________________________________________________________
o Local News Broadcast (e.g. KTLA, KABC, etc.)______________________________________________________________
o News Source on the Internet (e.g. The Onion, BBC News, Google News, etc.)______________________________________________________________
2. Setting of the Event (Date and Place)_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Characters (People or Things Involved)____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Write a summary of the article (The answers to who, what, when, where, and why should be included in your summary, and the summary should indicate you’ve checked it for the “Middle School Inexcusables”)._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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5. Why did you choose to write a current events summary on this content? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. What connections can you make (more than one) to what you’re currently learning or will learn in science this year? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________